Chiral current generation in QED by longitudinal photons

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.05.008zbMATH Open1342.81707arXiv1602.01402OpenAlexW2268973813MaRDI QIDQ2631402FDOQ2631402

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 29 July 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We report the generation of a pseudovector electric current having imbalanced chirality in an electron-positron strongly magnetized gas in QED. It propagates along the external applied magnetic field B as a chiral magnetic effect in QED. It is triggered by a perturbative electric field parallel to B, associated to a pseudovector longitudinal mode propagating along B. An electromagnetic chemical potential was introduced, but our results remain valid even for vanishing chemical potential. A nonzero fermion mass was assumed, which is usually considered vanishing in the literature. In the quantum field theory formalism at finite temperature and density, an anomaly relation for the axial current was found for a medium of massive fermions. It bears some analogy to the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly. From the expression for the chiral current in terms of the photon self-energy tensor in a medium, it is obtained that electrons and positrons scattered by longitudinal photons (inside the light cone) contribute to the chiral current, as well as the pair creation due to longitudinal photons (out of light cone). In the static limit, an electric pseudovector current is obtained in the lowest Landau level

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01402

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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• Quantum field theory in a magnetic field: from quantum chromodynamics to graphene and Dirac semimetals
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